Professor
Roger E. Howe, member of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, is a
scholar of distinction.

Professor Howe’s major research interest
is in applications of symmetry, particularly harmonic
analysis, group representations, automorphic forms and
invariant theory. “His pathbreaking contributions to the
representation theory of p-adic groups and of dual reductive
pairs establish him as a principal architect of a theory of
central and growing importance. His originality and depth
have far-reaching consequences.” (From membership citation
when Professor Howe was elected into the National Academy of
Sciences, USA).

Professor Howe is also an exceptional
teacher. “If mathematics is a language, you certainly speak
it beautifully. Fortunately for those who are not themselves
native speakers, you have demonstrated a gift for making
fundamental concepts in the structure of mathematics become
familiar and intelligible ....” (From award citation when
Professor Howe was named William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of
Mathematics).

Professor Howe has had extensive contact
with and significant influence within the mathematical
community in the Asia-Pacific region. He has on many
occasions visited universities in Australia, Israel, Japan,
Singapore, Hong Kong and China. In particular, Professor
Howe was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at
Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1988, a fellow of the
Japan Society for the Advancement of Science in 1993 and is
currently chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the
Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National
University of Singapore.

As Professor Howe celebrates his 60th
birthday, we are organizing a conference to honor his
achievements both as a scholar and as a teacher.

The conference is partially supported by
IMS and academic research grants of NUS.